Developing Editing Techniques

In-Camera Editing

In-camera editing is a type of video production. It involves pausing and playing the camera whilst filming without editing when the filming is complete. 

First of all before we started filming we had to gather some props in preparation for the robbery in the film. Secondly we acted out the scenes before filming for practise so we didn't make any mistakes during the filming process. The fist scene of the film involves Shaun le'sage walking into the bank asking to withdraw 500 pounds and Charlie giving him the money. The next scene is me and Jake walking into the bank with the bag and preparing to rob it. After that it showed me and Jake walking into the bank casually and robbing it for the money. The scene after that involved showing Jake trying to find the money in the vault and then trying to run out the bank with the money (although in the film the money was actually dropped on the floor, but you we pretended that that didn't happen). The scene after this was a little blooper where Shaun as not aware that we were filming. All of the scenes after this was just basically the policemen chasing after the robbers.
The element that we found really hard is only having one take to get things right the first time, so there is a lot of mistakes in the film. We could have made the stroy-line more simple because the it was very difficult and since we only had one take to film everything which made it a lot more difficult. Although, i feel that the story-line was imaginative.

A con of in-camera editing is that there is only one take to film all of the scenes so there is no room to make mistakes. An advantage to in-camera editing is that no editing after the filming process is required, so in all, it takes less time the make the film and finish it.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison ran a film labratory where the kinetographic camera and kinetoscope were invented. He developed the 35mm film strip that came to be the industry standard. He also eventually developed the projector to play.

The Lumiere Brothers

The Lumiere Brothers shot the film
'Sortie d'usine'.

Edison worked with The Lumiere Brothers and produced short films that were once long, static, locked-down shot. Motion in the shot was all that was necessary to amuse an audience so the first films simply showed activity such as traffic moving on a city street. This can be in the film 'Sortie d'usine' (1895) by The lumiere Brothers.

Sortie d'usine - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhtq01E6JI )

initially there was no story and no editing. Each film ran as long as there was film in the camera. An example of which is; 'The Miller and The Sweep' (1895) by G.A. Smith. 

The Miller and The Sweep - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6M5Axalkc )

The magician was the first
person to think of
in-camera editing.

George Melies

George Melies was a magician who had seen the films the films that made by The Lumiere Brothers. Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion itself. He acquired a camera built a studio wrote scripts, designed sets and soon he discovered and exploited the basic camera tricks we all know today. In 1886 he made 'The Vanishing Lady' using a technique known as in-camera editing.

The Vanishing Lady - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x93QagJU )

G.A. Smith

In 1899 G.A. Smith made 'A Kiss in The Tunnel'. This film is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing (creating a story). Smith felt that 'some extra spice was called for' in the then popular 'Phantom Ride' genre. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into a tunnel to splice (cut and then stick two pieces of film together) in the shot of the couple.

A Kiss in The Tunnel - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jwTCcXW2Y )